Overall, 74 percent [of men visiting streetwalkers] reported that they always wear a condom (men with stable relationships were less likely to use protection, at least with prostitutes).
It’s not so hard to write down the underlying utility function here, is it?
That is from the September 2007 issue of Atlantic Monthly, citing research by economist Marina della Giusta and others, published in Applied Economics. The working paper seems to be here.
In another development at Atlantic Monthly, but unrelated to the above factoid, or to the more general idea of yikes, the new Megan McArdle blog is now up and running. Here is Megan’s post on what old people deserve.
When you say “factoid” do you mean “an invented fact that appears to be true” (the correct definition) or just a “small fact”?
I’m not entirely sure I follow – they’re *less* likely to wear condoms when they’re in a stable relationship? So they worry less about infecting and alienating an existing partner, and worry more about attracting an unknown future partner?
I would guess that it has more to do with habit than utility.
Regarding your parenthetical comment about Megan’s new site…
DAMN! Have you read the comments sections? I wonder if she considered what she was getting into by stepping into that collectivist swamp?
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